How to stop being logged out of everything automatically when I turn off my laptop

This has started to happen to me as well when my laptop did an automatic upgrade a couple of weeks ago.  It's infuriating! Google asks to save the password each time, but never pops up again.  I hope Microsoft fixes this.

Hello everyone,

I was going through this same issue. After many days of trying different things – Uninstalling and reinstalling Office, Google Chrome, clearing credentials and cached passwords, and the rest of advice in this thread, this is what seemed to solve half of the problem:

 (Please take note that I’m not tech-savvy, I’m just a regular Windows user)

I have linked my PC’s account to one of my Hotmail accounts – instead of using the local account as I did before, and verified the account as requested. Then I also activated the PIN for Hello Windows. It seems that now this new Windows 20H2 version is asking for exactly this – very persistently, if you omit it or overlook it then one will be logged off every number of minutes. Once I did this PIN thing then the system stopped logging me out of One Drive, Outlook 365 and Office.

Then for my additional Microsoft email accounts – which I normally gather into Outlook 365, I gave each of them the same PIN for Hello Windows when prompted, and voilá! My Hotmail and live accounts are not logging off anymore.

For the Google accounts and Google Chrome browser, I have not found a solution. What I did was to provisionally change to Edge browser and have set my Gmail accounts to resend everything to one of my Microsoft email accounts I have signed on in my Outlook 365. The Edge browser is not logging me off websites anymore.

I know this is just a partial solution, but at least I’m not going crazy with all the continuous prompts the system was giving before, when asking to re-enter passwords for everything, and can now use my time to get work done! It feels like Microsoft is now forcing this Windows Hello functionality.

I hope this helps somehow. Have a nice day!

I am having the exact same problem as you.  Getting logged out while still using my laptop.  Very frustrating that Microsoft has not addressed this issue yet.

So after a while I was so mad I had to do something while Microsoft did nothing. The only thing that helped me was creating a new local user. But as if it wasn’t complicated enough Windows did not want to let me create a new one. 

Steps I had to do to solve my problem:

    1. Enable administrator account via cmd

    2. Create new local user also via cmd 

    3. Log in as new user

    4. Log out and log in as administrator 

    5. Copy old user folder over to the new one 

I had to reinstall some things again but mostly everything was fine. Hope this helps.

Chris

Oh gosh, that sounds too complicated for me - I would no know where to start and fear I would make everything worse. I is so frustrating :(

Your comment is from July - it has not been resolved - do they not have an update for this yet?